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ROBERT LANHAM, OF CHINGFORD, ENGLAND.

MANIFOLD MEMORANDUM OR SALES BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 440,044, dated November 4, 1890. Application filed April 25, 1890. Serial No. 349,577. (No specimens.) Patented inEnglandMarc-h 22, 1890, No.4,492.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT LANHAM, a subject of the Queen of England, residing at Ghingford, in the county of Essex and King dom of England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Manifold Memorandum or Sales Books, (for which I have made application for Letters Patent in Great Britain under the No. 4,492 and date of March 22, 1890,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in manifold memorandum or sales books; and it has for its object to facilitate the insertion and retention of detachable leaves or billheads within the covers while permitting their ready withdrawal, the placing and securing of the carbon-sheet so that it will not need continual handling, but retain its position for immediate use until the detachable leaves are exhausted, and to provide a memorandum or sales book very simple and economical in make and use.

I provide the right or the left hand side of the cover of my book with a fixed or a movable back or vertical edge, which may have a horizontal lip or overlap or a spring or springs for the purpose of keeping the detachable leaves from rising; and I further provide this cover with a hook, pin, stud, or suitable fastening to hold theleaves and the carbon-sheet, perforating these latter so that they may be readily passed onto said hook or fastening, and strengthening the fixed edge of the carbonsheet with card-board or other suitable material to prevent its tearing away as the detachable leaves are withdrawn or torn from the fastening, and to facilitate placing it in the book. I may also cut the detachable leaves so that the partto be folded over onto the carbon-sheet shall not be so broad as the part beneath it, which is held by the hook or other fastening.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a sales-book embodying my improvements shown open, Fig. 2 being an end view of the same, and Fig. 3 a front end View of a book closed.

A A represent the cover.

B is a pocket or case attached to A; O, the

hinged or fixed vertical flange or back se-' cured to A; C, a horizontal lip or overlap of same; D, a hook pin or stud for securing bill heads; E, a summary or index sheet, which may have memorandum, order, and premium forms at back; F, a pencil; G, a carbon-sheet; H, a strengthening-piece attached to carhon-sheet; I, the bill -heads or detachable leaves; K, a hole or perforation to receive pin or stud D.

It will be seen that the bill-heads I and the carbonsheet C, perforated at K, are passed over the hook, pin, or stud D, the vertical flange or back 0 keeping them from pivoting thereon or shifting beyond that edge of the cover, and the horizontal lip or overlap O preventing their rising. The overlap O is cut away in part of its length to facilitate the insertion of the bill-heads and carbonsheet beneath it; but if the back 0 is hinged this cutting away of the overlap will not be necessary. To facilitate drawing the summary or index sheet E from the pocket B, this latter is cut away, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1, the summary-sheet beingheld when in use, as shown at Fig. 2.

In using this book all the leaves I on the top side of the carbon-sheet, as shown, Fig. 2, are turned onto the cover A. One of the leaves I is then folded onto the top side of the carbon-sheet G, as shown, Fig. 1, and when the bill is made out it is torn from the fastening D, another leaf I folded onto the carbon sheet, and so on, until the bill-heads are exhausted.

Having fully described my invention, what Iclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1S?- 1. The herein-described manifold memorandum or sales book, consisting of the cover A A, one part of said cover being provided with an overlapping flange and a hook or stud, a carbon-sheet secured to said hook or stud, and leaves, as I, adapted to be secured to said .hook or stud beneath the carbon-sheet.

2. The combination,in a manifold memorandum or sales book, of the flange 0, having an overlap (3' or its equivalent, and the fastening D or its equivalent whereby the billheads I or other leaves and the carbon-sheet G are secured in the cover A A, substantially as described.

3. The combination, in a manifold memoranhon-sheet G, and leaves I, said carbon-sheet G dum or sales book, of the cover A A, having being provided upon one edge with astrengthpocket 13, flange O, with overlap O, and hook ening-strip. or stud D, with index-sheet E, pencil F, car- 5 hon-sheet G, and leaves I, all substantially as ROBERT LANHAM' set forth, for the purpose specified. Witnesses:

4:. The combination, in amanifold Inemoran- H. W. HILL, dum or sales book, of the coverA A, having 15 Hillmwton Rd. W pocket B, flange O, with overlap C, and hook R. H. KING,

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